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Starter Course - BlackMood Openings

Course 99 episodes
(4 hours 43 min)

Creators GM Avetik Grigoryan

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Champions, hopefully, you’ve learned the WhiteMood openings, enjoying it and having lots of fun.

Now it’s time to create an opening repertoire for Black!
While they’re many fine openings, GM Avetik offers you a one, that is not only
✅Strong and ✅Fundamental,
but also,
✅Fun-to-play
✅And the most important - It doesn’t require memorization of long variations!

Additionally, with learning just 2 openings(!!!), you’ll be ready to fight against each White’s 1st moves - 1.e4, 1.d4, 1.c4, 1.Nf3, 1.g3, 1.b3…

Yes! You’ll not need to learn lots of different openings. Just 2! ...

We’ll play French and Dutch!
But not French Defense and Dutch Defense, as they’re called in the theory.
We’ll play French (1.e4 e6) and Dutch attacks (1.d4 e6 with f5 next)!

That’s true, we play with Black pieces, but we’re not going to play passively and choose some defensive openings getting boring positions.
Instead, we’re going to fight for the initiative from the very beginning.

Also, we’re not going to main variations, deeply covered in the theory, where you’ll need to memorize long variations…
As Avetik used these openings all his life, he found lots of interesting outside-box thinking variations, which are not covered in the theory or books.

And in this course, he shares with you lots of interesting new ideas, that will surprise and take your opponents out of preparation from the very beginning, giving you a big practical advantage.

You’ll learn all the ideas, strategies and plans of your openings, that’ll help you to enjoy your game and have lots of fun.

P. S.
At the end of the course, you’ll learn about GreyMood Openings!
In case, sometimes you don’t want to play 1.e4 with White pieces, or you want to surprise your opponents, you’ll see how you can put in action the BlackMood openings with an additional one tempo and keep your opening repertoire very simple.

Now, let’s dive into the unexplored world of French and Dutch attacks and see why we’ll not use the “defense” word in this course, targetting the opponent’s King all the time!

Starter Course - BlackMood Openings

What you'll learn

Why we call it a French attack!
The key strategies and the plans for both sides in French
The outside-box variations, without the standard plans
The uncovered “Kinder Surprise” variations and the McCutcheon Gambit
The main attacking ideas behind the Dutch Attack
Everything you need to know for fighting below 2,000 level opponents

Course Content

99
Episodes
135
Quizzes & Trainings
4
Attachments
4 hours 43 min

Course overview

1. What are our openings?

Unlocked 1m 51s

2. Just two openings - How's that possible?

Unlocked 8m 34s

3. Are these openings lifetime?

Unlocked 1m 13s

4. Maximizing the effect

Unlocked 1m 17s

1. Against 1.e4

2. Why the French is aggressive

1. The philosophy of the French pawn structure

Unlocked 4m 49s

2. The 3.e5 and our three options

3. The first option

Unlocked 4m 32s

4. The 2nd option

Unlocked 4m 10s

5. The 3rd option - My main recommendation

6. The dream variation

Unlocked 1m 57s

7. How solid is it?

8. Kd7!! - French Attack in action

Unlocked 5m 39s

9. Our different options

Unlocked 4m 37s

10. The strange idea

11. Why White shouldn't push c4

Unlocked 3m 37s

12. How we trick the opponent after 5.a4

Unlocked 2m 23s

13. The Knight moves

Unlocked 2m 15s

14. How we react if White develops the Knight to e2

15. The downsides of the f4 move

Unlocked 2m 57s

16. Summarizing what we've learned

Unlocked 2m 33s

17. The practical advantage you’ll have

1. 3.ed5 - The exchange variation

2. The important Bishop question

3. Our agressive setup

4. How we should react against 3.c4

5. Summarizing the exchange variation with 3.ed5

2. 3…Nf6 - pressuring on e4

3. The 1st option

4. The 2nd option and the paradoxical move

5. Outside of box thinking

6. The two options we have

7. Another surprise

8. The McCutcheon Gambit

1. 3.Nd2 - The Tarrasch Variation

2. Our tricky variation with 3...Nc6

6. Summarizing the 3…Nc6 move

1. How we should react against 3.Bd3

2. Facing ChessMood students

1. Summarizing 2.d4 - the main move

2. The two Knights variation

3. Can they stop us with 2.c4?

4. A paradoxical reply after 2.Qe2

5. Our surprising reply against King's Indian attack

1. Introduction

2. The idea of Dutch Attack

3. Why 1...e6 instead of 1...f5

1. Attacking the London system

2. Summary of London

1. Facing the 2 Knights' setup

2. The doubled pawns structure after 5.a3

3. White allows us to take on c3

4. White avoids getting doubled pawns

5. 3.Nf3 with 4.e3

6. 3.a3 - When they stop Bb4

7. Can White castle to the queenside?

8. It's easy and fun

9. The attacking plan with Rook lift

10. Don't show your cards

11. A counterintuitive idea

12. Let’s move ahead

2. Stonewall variation

3. Going a bit deeper

4. White's options

5. What you'll face most often

6. Summarizing the g3 move

7. Why do we play Stonewall only against g3?

1. Other systems

2. 2.Nf3 with 3.Bg5 - The Torre attack

3. How we attack against Colle system

4. 2.Nc3 - Veresov attack

1. It's gambit time!

2. Delayed Staunton Gambit - 3.e4

3. Delayed Krejcic Gambit - 3.g4

1. Introduction

2. Dutch attack vs 1.c4

3. So simple :)

1. Dutch Attack vs. Reti

1. Stonewall vs. 1.g3

1. Punishing the Grob

1. Introduction

2. White’s ideas

3. Why not 1…e6 and 2…f5

4. The hidden problem of 1.b3

1. We choose the same setup

1. Dealing with a bird

1. A big theory

1. Congratulations

2. GreyMood Attack!

PDF File - French Attack

PDF File - Dutch Attack

PDF File - BlackMood against other moves

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